EBOLA : Private Hospitals Reject Patients With Fever Symptoms

Some private hospitals in Lagos on Tuesday August 12th rejected treating patients who visited them with symptoms of fever as part of measures being taking to prevent contracting the Ebola virus.

A visit by the News Agency of Nigeria to some hospitals in Lagos Metropolis showed that nurses and other health workers, including cleaners were seen wearing face mask and gloves while attending to patients.

Also, some of the health facilities were compelling patients to wash their hands and apply sanitisers before proceeding into their building.
Some of the hospitals visited included Jaycee Hospital, Prime Hospital, Lifeline Children’s Hospital and Providence Hospital.

EBOLA DRAMA: Nurses, Doctors Flee Patient With Ebola Symptom At Orile -Agege General Hospital

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Ebola is really a scary disease, it attacks without discrimination. In what appeared to be a comedy, nurses and doctors took to their heels at Orile-Agege General Hospital, when a patient with ebola like symptoms was brought in..

"If you try to save a patient and in the process you contact the virus and you later die, who have you saved?" These were the words of most nurses yesterday at Orile-Agege General hospital when a man with symptoms of Ebola was rushed to the hospital.

It was gathered that, Nurses on duty fled immediately the man was brought in, while doctors also refused to attend to him because they were not well equipped. The hospital management later called on their colleagues at Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital who also said they lacked the facilities to treat him.

SHOCKING : DOCTOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTS 21 WOMEN WHILE THEY WERE SEDATED (PICTURED)

A Canadian anaesthesiologist,George Doodnaught, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting 21 women while they were sedated, but still aware of their surroundings.

Doodnaught was convicted in November of kissing, fondling and forcing oral sex on the patients at North York General Hospital in Toronto during a four-year period that ended in 2010.
The victims were aware of what was happening but could not move, the court heard.
In delivering the sentence, Ontario Superior Court Judge David McCombs called the crimes “shocking and abhorrent”, according to public broadcaster CBC.